Jakob Alt

File:Jakob Alt - View from the Artist's Studio in Alservorstadt toward Dornbach, 1836 - Google Art Project.jpg

View from the Artist's Studio in Alservorstadt toward Dornbach, 1836

File:Jakob Alt Liebespaar bei Vollmondnacht 1816.jpg

Couple in love in moonshine

Jakob Alt (27 September 1789 – 30 September 1872) was a German painter and lithographer.

Life

Alt was born at Frankfurt am Main in 1789, where he received his early artistic education. Later he moved to Vienna and entered the Academy. He soon became noted as a landscape painter and made various journeys throughout Austria and Italy, painting, as he went along, views in the neighborhood of the Danube and in the city of Vienna.

In later life Alt painted a lot in watercolor; he was also a lithographer. In 1830 the future Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria began a project to commission paintings of the most beautiful views in the Empire. Alt, and his eldest son, Rudolf von Alt painted about 170 of the 300 works executed before the scheme came to an end in 1849.

He died in Vienna in 1872.

Gallery

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  The blue grotto in Capri

• Jakob Alt - Panoramaansicht von Venedig - ca 1835.jpeg

  Venice, 1835

• Jakob Alt - Blick auf Rom - 1837.jpg

  View of Rome, 1837 watercolor now in the Albertina, Vienna

• Jakob Alt - Blick auf Schloss Stiebar bei Gresten in Niederösterreich - 1834.jpg

  Stiebar Castle, Austria, 1834

• Dubrovnik bay c1840.jpg

  Dubrovnik bay, 1840

• Jakob Alt - Hofburg und Franziskanerkirche in Innsbruck - 1845.jpeg

  Innsbruck, 1845

• Jakob Alt - Das Städchen Jablunkau im Teschner Kreis - 1840.jpeg

  Jablunkov, 1840

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  Wien

See also

• List of German painters

Sources

This article incorporates text from the article "ALT, Jakob" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

External links

• Jakob Alt at ArtCyclopedia